Contract with a prison for labor. That’s how most businesses do it. You don’t get them to work in your shop, you get them to produce whatever onsite in the prison. Good luck with your shit morals if you do that, though. Hopefully anyone who actually takes advantage of this gets what’s coming to them with the rest of the evil fucks ruining the world.

Yeah, I bet they’re feeling a bit uneasy when something like 600B fell off their market cap.

Ooh, this looks dope! Subbed to this channel for sure.

Same. My girl rolls in it, loves it, consumes it, then 5-10 minutes later, she’s staring at me accusingly like I’ve done something to wrong her.

This is setting aside that she only gets catnip when she screams at me for it.

Moments before a thought coalesced into violence.

Exploitability sounds pretty terrible as a possibility, but I will say that the devs seem aware of it and the possibility of exploitation doesn’t necessarily sink a game like this. Eve often was such an amazing experience early on precisely because the game had so many openly exploitable systems.

They mention they’re looking to attract the caregiver archetype, which I assume means they’re trying not to bring the purely competitive Eve player, so maybe a healthy starting mix will help with the exploitative feeling early on?

I was actually looking into that. I might do that if there’s a bit more beefy Steam deck coming over the next year or so. Or maybe I’ll grab one of those Lenovo handhelds and throw SteamOS on it. I really wanna try some of these Switch 2 titles, though, so I think I’m gonna have to do my research and learn all the old pirate places again so I can do the ROM thing when the Switch 2 emulation gets figured out.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t be able to be taken to court, more that the argument “making a political decision” literally applies to any action a politician takes. Even if that’s not likely to succeed, if that’s the bar to clear, any sufficiently large company could just repeatedly sue an official with adversarial views, to hobble any decisions they make couldn’t they? This is purely ignorance of how the UK legal system works on my part, so I apologize if this is like super basic info.

That’s a good clarification on the UK office of Palantir, though, I fully didn’t realize that would be considered a local entity, given where they’re headquartered, but it makes way more sense in that case.

I’m a bit confused here. Isn’t the office of the mayor a political seat? Are they not allowed to make subjective decisions in the course of their duties? How is this grounding for a lawsuit at all?

I know in the US it’s a pretty low bar for a lawsuit, but I was under the impression that the UK required some genuine reasoning for going to court.

It just seems insane that an American spy company can sue another country for saying “hey, maybe it’s not a good idea to have an American spy company running our police force”.

Ugh. I will never buy another Nintendo thing if I can avoid it, but I’d be lying if I said this game didn’t really test my willpower.

Sorry, 2-7 times a day??? Oh no

God, I can’t agree more. These last few shows have had suuuuuch a good selection of games.

I wonder what the officially recognized denomination of Christian will be when they keep cutting.

I don’t wanna be needlessly argumentative, but no it isn’t. This is just lying, not all lies are gaslighting. Gaslighting is lying with the specific intent of making someone question their perception of reality.

Literally among the most damaging things you can do to yourself with AI. Edit: if they aren’t being sardonic.

Are her destructive capabilities growing as well?

They did their Royale edition about five years ago that kinda breathed new life into Persona 5 since it also released on a bunch of new systems. I know that’s how I got to experience the game, once it came to PC.

I’m not even talking exclusively about capabilities, I’m talking about the effects of using LLMs on people. Cases of psychosis and the effects on the newer generation in their education, the atrophy of critical thinking skills, the ability to subtly influence public opinion, those are things we should be thinking about even if you don’t think that LLMs are capable of doing anything.

I watched a playthrough (so you know, not actually playing) and I gotta say it felt like watching a decent 007 movie. The voice acting and story was pretty good and it definitely felt like “Bond” but just from the outside the gameplay looked very mediocre. I was hoping it would be a bit more Hitman adjacent given the dev team, but after seeing it, I just don’t know that the Hitman-like puzzle maps would actually work in a game with such a linear narrative.

Here’s the thing. We should absolutely not trust any companies with this much power about anything they say, buuuuuuut to play the devil’s advocate here, let’s pretend they are absolutely altruistic.

They are still a company and must compete. Their market edge isn’t dominant enough that they could really take any moral stand like “stop research and development” when there are three other companies who will gladly step into the market leader position, so even if they do believe their message, without any assurances that everyone will agree to pause, they’d just be letting someone else take over their spot for a moral stance for an arguably worse situation.

And realistically, if they weren’t in the lead, people would be saying “loser wants leaders to slow down lol” and if they’re in the lead people will say, “lol market leader wants competition to stop, I wonder why?”. There is really no position they can be in and make the claim without catching flak for it. A year or two ago Anthropic made a similar blog when they weren’t in such a dominant position and comments were exactly like that.

All that said, obviously they’re nearly a trillion dollar company and we shouldn’t take anything they say at face value, but I really do think the message here isn’t terrible (like the article says). We really should be slowing down and looking at the effects of AI. It has too much potential to fuck everything up to not think about it a bit, especially if recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.